Recent Posts Tagged With 'cotton'

• Heavenly Bodies

  Posted on Monday February 9th, 2009 at 18:10 in weaving, cotton, surface design, discharging

  I finished another piece of art cloth today, called Heavenly Bodies. It's handwoven black cotton on black cotton on which I discharged the warp with bleach before putting it on the loom. The weaving pattern is an 8-shaft network twill. The next step...

• Loom-Controlled Mokume

  Posted on Tuesday November 25th, 2008 at 21:55 in silk, cotton, shibori, woven shibori

  You may remember that I recently wove a cellulose fiber fabric, with random pickup for my supplementary shibori threads. And here it is, after initial finishing. The fabric is cotton/tencel warp and linen weft. After wet finishing and drying, I soake...

• Vanilla Cream

  Posted on Thursday November 13th, 2008 at 12:05 in weaving, cotton, tencel, woven shibori

  Another morning of fulfillment, as I laundered these just-off-the-loom cellulose fabrics. The warp for this batch is 10/2 cotton/tencel and each piece measures 22" in width. From the top down, they are:cotton flake weft, 34" in lengthcotton/tencel...